I specify "morning" in my post title today because the little bit of snow that fell Christmas morning was basically all gone by late afternoon. Walt and have been trying to remember if we'd ever had a white Christmas together before. Not here in Saint-Aignan, I'm pretty sure, and certainly not in San Francisco, we where celebrated Christmas
16 or 17 times between 1986 and 2003.
16 or 17 times between 1986 and 2003.
Another first for our Christmas in 2025 was that we didn't put up a Christmas tree for the first time since we came to live here in 2003. The house and yard in my photo are what we see from our kitchen window when it snows.
That's an interesting observation! Despite the fact that we get some very, very cold weather in winter, here in St. Louis, and often get snow... sometimes big amounts... there really haven't been that many years that I can remember (since 1977) that we have had a white Christmas. Definitely some (actually, 1977 was FREEZING cold, and we had ice and snow on the ground from Thanksgiving through December!), but it just varies from year to year. Yesterday, here, it was crazy warm... hit 72°F.... this morning, it was 20° when I work up, with a "feels like" temperature of -2° F!! (No snow, though.)
ReplyDeleteThe white Christmas makes up for not having a tree.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the beautiful snowy Christmas pictures. We didn’t put up a tree either. Here in the Okanagan Valley, it’s overcast and still too warm to get much snow that sticks around for more than a few hours. We live below the snow line but we can see a thin layer of it on the mountain tops that will build as the season progresses. January is usually the snowiest month. It presents some challenges when one lives on the side of a mountain and leads to lots of flight delays, flight diversions, and cancellations (mid-air) if one is traveling. But when it does snow a lot, it’s beautiful here and I always feel like we’re living in the middle of a ski resort. Very pretty. Wishing you both all the best in 2026! C.
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